In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Bai Qiuran and Jiang Lan decided to look for information by themselves.
After asking around for a while, the two learned the whole story.
It turned out that after the turmoil a few years ago, although Kyoto seemed to have restored tranquility, the so-called “soil squash” began to erupt frequently in this area of thousands of miles around Kyoto.
“Soil squash” meant farmers from several villages united to fight against the current regime by means of armed riots, in order to achieve the purpose of tax reduction or decommissioning activities.
The owner of this mansion was also a military attaché in Kyoto. He led the army and suppressed the “soil squash” that happened near Kyoto several times.
Three days ago, a village near Kyoto broke out again, and the military attache was ordered to take people to the suppression, but he never returned. By this morning, people discovered that his family that was living in this mansion died suddenly.
Some people said that this was because the military attache did not do a good job, which led to the curse of the gods. Of course, Bai Qiuran and Jiang Lan would definitely not believe these claims.
They asked the direction of the village from the mouths of these people and then walked towards the village.
Bai Qiuran and Jiang Lan were fast. Although Jiang Lan refused to let Bai Qiuran bring her by flying sword, they were still much faster than ordinary people by relying on their feet alone.
Both of them have mastered space spells, and each step covered a distance of hundreds of meters.
The village was not very far from Kyoto. It was about two hundred miles away. Bai Qiuran and Jiang Lan left Kyoto in the afternoon. By the evening, they had already seen the small village at the foot of the mountain.
After coming to this village, the sky darkened. The atmosphere became a lot gloomy, and the Yin energy around the village was quite strong, making people feel a gloomy chill.
The weirdest thing is that when it was time for dinner, there was no smoke or fire in the village. It seemed that there are no living people in the whole village.
“There are footprints on the ground”
Jiang Lan said softly, and then did a magic trick that Bai Qiuran had never seen before. She waved her hand and spilled a blue light, and then these light spots gathered on the ground, covering the outline of the footprints, making those shined.
After doing this, Jiang Lan smiled when he noticed Bai Qiuran’s gaze.
“It’s okay to figure out a little trick by myself to find those naughty disciples.”
“It’s a great idea.”
Bai Qiuran praised, then looked at the footprints on the ground.
“These should be the military attache and the troops he brought to supress the local villagers… How come there are so few? There are only a dozen or twenty people, right?”
“Looking at these footprints, they should be the footsteps of Kyoto soldiers. Although their armor is not good, at least they are armed with regular weapons, which is much better than the villagers in the village who can only fight with farm tools.”
After checking the ground, Jiang Lan said:
“Moreover, the number of people in the village should not be too many. To suppress such a village, it only needs a few people.”
“It looks like there is no one in the village.”
Bai Qiuran grabbed Jiang Lan’s hand.
“Let’s go in and take a look.”
“Ok.”
The two entered the village. The village looked better than the village occupied by demons when Bai Qiuran and the others first came to Fusang, but it was also very good. The village was all low-rise huts. There was a larger longhouse in the middle, which may be the place where the villagers usually discuss matters.
The whole village was silent, and the footsteps of the military attache and the footsteps disappeared at the entrance of the village. Whether it was the peasants who lived here or the military attache who came to suppress, they were all gone.
“Typical ghost trick.”
Bai Qiuran commented.
Having dealt with Xue Ling for so many years, he was also very familiar with the behavior of ghosts. Orthodox ghosts did not attack humans like demons and go straight forward, and they were even different from the possessing of the Land Immortals.
They were spirits that are born after creatures die completely. Naturally, they had the ability to create hallucinations. They usually use hallucinations to induce and intimidate human beings, slowly destroy the other’s psychological defenses, and let them die on their own.
Of course, there were powerful ghosts who were capable of directly devouring a living soul, but even a ghost with such ability usually chose to use illusion, which seemed to be their instinct.
Regardless of Xue Ling’s reckless way of holding the chain, when facing Bai Qiuran, he still used his illusion to fight Bai Qiuran with all his strength.
And this village seems to have become a “hunting ground” for a certain ghost.
Bai Qiuran and Jiang Lan walked into the village holding hands. Suddenly the wind began to blow on the flat ground. The wind was not strong, but there was a chilling feeling in the wind.
Boom!
Suddenly there was a muffled noise next to it, followed by a grunting sound. In the dark, something similar to the size of a human head rolled out of the shadow, but it was a clay pot.
The two walked two more steps, and the window of a small house on the other side suddenly creaked open. When Bai Qiuran and Jiang Lan followed the sound, they found a white shadow dangling by the window.
“…”
Jiang Lan quietly leaned closer to Bai Qiuran. She paused for a while before asking softly:
“Qiu Ran, can you find out where the ghost is hiding with your Soul Awareness?”
She looked scared.
Jiang Lan’s reaction made Bai Qiuran a bit amused. She was already an ancient immortal whose strength far exceeded that of the past, but Jiang Lan would still be afraid of things made by these little ghosts who were unable to harm her.
Also, there was no Underworld in the era of gods, so there were no ghosts on the earth.
Bai Qiuran answered Jiang Lan’s question while thinking:
“I tried to search just before I walked into the village, but to no avail. Ghosts are souls after absorbing grievances. They are a kind of spiritual body. They can usually hide in places where we can’t hide them by surprise, so It’s harder to find. They can even hide in dreams or thoughts. Even Wise Immortal must witness the body to find them. But it doesn’t matter, I have experience.”
Ignoring the weird and supernatural phenomena deliberately created by the surrounding ghosts, Bai Qiuran took Jiang Lan’s hand and walked straight to the longhouse in the middle of the village.
As soon as the two of them entered the room with their front feet, a stray wind blew on their back feet and the door closed with a slam.
The long room plunged into darkness for a while, Bai Qiuran felt that Jiang Lan’s hand was beginning to force her, and at the same time, her voice came intermittently, trembling slightly.
“Qiu Ran, what are you going to do next?”
“Next, fishing…”
Before Bai Qiuran finished speaking, all kinds of debris in the entire longhouse suddenly flew out of thin air and fell to the ground again.
“Yeah!”
Jiang Lan exclaimed in a small exclamation, and then the whole person posted up and clung to Bai Qiuran’s arm tightly.
Pop, pop, pop.
Suddenly there was a wet and sticky sound on the ground as if a barefooted person was stained with liquid on his feet and stepped on the tatami. The two looked in the direction where the sound came from and found that a series of bloody footprints appeared out of nowhere on the ground.
Click!
A thunderstorm suddenly sounded outside the house. The moment the thunder light illuminated the longhouse, the two saw a woman in a blood coat and long hair standing in the corner of the longhouse.
Jiang Lan’s body trembled, and at this moment, a cold wind suddenly stroked the cheeks of the two of them. Jiang Lan felt that a third person was standing behind her and lifted her long hair.
Jiang Lan was so frightened that she screamed, and then slapped her backhand.